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change-check.html

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     <a href="index.html#problem">The problem</a>
     <a href="index.html#work">How we work</a>
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     <a class="nav-cta" href="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca/michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-link="michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-origin="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca" data-cal-config='{"theme":"light"}'>Book a conversation</a>
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   <a href="index.html#problem">The problem</a>
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+  <a href="change-check.html">Change Check</a>
   <a class="nav-cta" href="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca/michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-link="michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-origin="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca" data-cal-config='{"theme":"light"}'>Book a conversation</a>
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     <a href="#problem">The problem</a>
     <a href="#work">How we work</a>
     <a href="#who">Who we are</a>
+    <a href="change-check.html">Change Check</a>
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   <a href="#problem">The problem</a>
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   <a href="#who">Who we are</a>
+  <a href="change-check.html">Change Check</a>
   <a class="nav-cta" href="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca/michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-link="michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-origin="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca" data-cal-config='{"theme":"light"}'>Book a conversation</a>
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       <p class="eyebrow">The human side of change · for manufacturers</p>
-      <h1>New systems don't fail on the tech. They fail on the <em>people.</em></h1>
+      <h1>The better the tools get, the more human judgment is worth. Fear is what keeps it <em>locked up.</em></h1>
       <p class="lead">Getting your people to trust the change, share what they know, and lead through it — that's what decides whether any of it sticks. We work it like a craft, not a pep talk: a clear method, and the people skill to make it land.</p>
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       <p class="eyebrow">Where change actually breaks</p>
       <h2 class="statement-line">You can buy the software. You can write the procedures. And still watch the whole thing <em>quietly fall apart.</em></h2>
       <p>Because the new way asks people to change — and people don't resist change to be difficult. They resist it because it threatens something: their standing, their habits, the thing that's made them the one everyone relies on. The veteran who won't quite share what he knows. The supervisor who nods in the meeting and does it the old way Monday morning. The blame that starts flying the first time something goes wrong.</p>
-      <p class="emph">None of that is a character flaw. It's how people work — and it's the part that quietly determines whether your investment pays off — or sits on a shelf.</p>
+      <p class="emph">None of that is a character flaw. It's how people work. And the way out is simpler than it looks: nobody who's teaching is <em>obsolete.</em></p>
+      <p class="statement-link"><a href="change-check.html">Where does your team sit? Take the two&#8209;minute Change Check &#8594;</a></p>
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inga.html

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     <a href="index.html#problem">The problem</a>
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     <a href="index.html#who">Who we are</a>
+    <a href="change-check.html">Change Check</a>
     <a class="nav-cta" href="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca/michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-link="michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-origin="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca" data-cal-config='{"theme":"light"}'>Book a conversation</a>
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+  <a href="change-check.html">Change Check</a>
   <a class="nav-cta" href="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca/michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-link="michaelvictory/20min-opencommunications-meeting" data-cal-origin="https://cal.shopwisdom.ca" data-cal-config='{"theme":"light"}'>Book a conversation</a>
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llms.txt

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 # Open Communications
 
-> Open Communications is the human side of change for manufacturers. The systems are the easy part — we help the people in a shop trust the change, share what they know, and lead through it so the work actually sticks. Open Communications is the people side of ShopWisdom.
+> Open Communications is the human side of change for manufacturers. The systems are the easy part — we help the people in a business trust the change, share what they know, and lead through it so the work actually sticks. Open Communications is the people side of ShopWisdom.
 
 ## What we do — the work happens in three places
 - Coaching the people who carry the knowledge: one-to-one coaching that helps retiring veterans see the value in passing on what's in their heads, and actually want to.

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